Episode through the eyes of a child

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Imagine an episode in which you follow a previously unseen child character to see what it's like in a typical child's eyes to live on the Enterprise, or DS9. So family life, school days, eating out, shore leave, etc. How they perceive and interact with characters we take for granted.

Kind of like TNG's "Lower Decks", only with a civilian child.

 

[1001001]

So Jake, Nog, Naomi, Wesley, Mezoti, Clara, Molly,…

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Previously unseen. Most of the regular kids interact with these people because they're related to a main character. They have an in. Or something happens to them that makes them the focus of the episode.

More like "Data's Day", but with a non-android juvenile - maybe told in the pages of their diary log. Perhaps this is their first experience with space.

 

[Forbin]

Dear Diary,
My mommy and Daddy work in the fazer power junk room - junction room? The Borg killed them. It's Captain Picard's fault. On the next Captain Picard Day, I'm going to steel a fazer and kill him in front of everybody.

 

[Oddish]

Long as I don't have to take calculus.

 

[Victoria]

In "Data's day", we see Data moving through the events. Given the self-centredness of many children, there could be a day when we see disasters going on all around. The child drifts through completely oblivious to the major events and entirely centred on the minutiae of the replicator not working, something getting spilt, not being allowed out of their quarters to meet a friend...

 

[herofhyrule]

Long as I don't have to take calculus.

You don't have to do anything you don't want to do.

What's calculus?

 

[1001001]

Previously unseen. Most of the regular kids interact with these people because they're related to a main character. They have an in. Or something happens to them that makes them the focus of the episode.

More like "Data's Day", but with a non-android juvenile - maybe told in the pages of their diary log. Perhaps this is their first experience with space.

My point is that there are a fair number of episodes throughout Trek where we see a child’s perspective. We don’t have to imagine it.

I guess I’m not understanding the point. Is it to generate fan fiction-type stuff?

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

More to speculate on what it might have been like at the time, and whether it would have been interesting to viewers. It certainly would have appealed to children watching the show.

 

[Jedi Marso]

Dear Diary,
My mommy and Daddy work in the fazer power junk room - junction room? The Borg killed them. It's Captain Picard's fault. On the next Captain Picard Day, I'm going to steel a fazer and kill him in front of everybody.

Okay.

I would totally watch this one, and probably rewatch it!

Episode title could be "Jeremy".

 

[Timofnine]

In "Data's day", we see Data moving through the events. Given the self-centredness of many children, there could be a day when we see disasters going on all around. The child drifts through completely oblivious to the major events and entirely centred on the minutiae of the replicator not working, something getting spilt, not being allowed out of their quarters to meet a friend...

They should do something like this in the new Seven of Nine spin-off. Such a good idea.

 

[Oddish]

You don't have to do anything you don't want to do.

What's calculus?

Nothing important. Let's make a dolphin.

I would totally watch this one, and probably rewatch it!

Episode title could be "Jeremy".

Reminds me of that alternative song, don't remember the band. It involved a lemon yellow sun and a violent incident of some sort.

They should do something like this in the new Seven of Nine spin-off. Such a good idea.

Does the ENT-G have kids onboard? Might be better for a Short Treks revival, just set it on the ENT-D. And there's no calamity, no Romulans, just an ordinary day. Wake up, get breakfast from the replicator, off to school, look out the viewpoint at the planet were orbiting today and hear about it in social studies class. Leave school, play with your friends in their quarters, go see a kid friendly play, eat dinner, go to bed.

 

[Jedi Marso]

Reminds me of that alternative song, don't remember the band. It involved a lemon yellow sun and a violent incident of some sort..

You remember correctly. Stone Temple Pilots. Jeremy was the song title.

 

[Oddish]

That's the one.

If they had made a kid-centered episode at the time of the series, Jeremy would have been a potential subject... maybe before he was orphaned. That would have made Marla's death hit A LOT harder.

 

[Farscape One]

You remember correctly. Stone Temple Pilots. Jeremy was the song title.

Pearl Jam did "Jeremy", not Stone Temple Pilots.

 

[Jedi Marso]

Pearl Jam did "Jeremy", not Stone Temple Pilots.

Oops.

 

[Oddish]

My bad too. All I had to do was look it up on YouTube.

One of my favorite moments from DS9 was about how the human condition hadn't changed. Young Ben Sisko is agonizing about whether to ask out a girl he has a crush on, just like guys do today. And then we get a reminder that it's still the future, because when another girl moves in down the street, Ben asks her out before her parents are done beaming in the furniture.

Technology changes, but people are still people. That means kids are still kids. We get a hint of that in "Once Upon a Time", but even then it was mid-calamity: Naomi's mom was missing.

 

[The Wormhole]

Previously unseen. Most of the regular kids interact with these people because they're related to a main character. They have an in. Or something happens to them that makes them the focus of the episode.

More like "Data's Day", but with a non-android juvenile - maybe told in the pages of their diary log. Perhaps this is their first experience with space.

So, TNG's Imaginary Friend?

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

It's the routine, "boring" (at least compared to danger and alien weirdness) moments on the ship that would be highlighted.

 

[1001001]

Like Alexander stealing a toy from school?